Making Sitemaps visible to Search Engines.

[GoPantheoN]

Today I was searching for Webmaster tools page of different search engines and it was boring and difficult.

Then I found that was not necessary to submit sitemaps to each and every search engine. Instead we can make the sitemaps visible by just adding the following in robots.txt

Sitemap: http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml

or just

Sitemap: /sitemap.xml

And if you want to add multiple sitemaps

Sitemap: http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap1.xml
Sitemap: http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap2.xml
Sitemap: http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap3.xml

I know many knew this, but just wanted others also to know this.

More info @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemaps#Search_engine_submission

 

[Daniel]

thanks for sharing

 

[DoctorX]

yes u right..
iam using this...
thanks alot

 

[DeLeTeD]

Yea a very useful trick

 

[Not_Responding]

very nice tips ----- really really useful

 

[Mars]

thanks mate

 

[Raptile]

Already knew this

Thanks tho.

 

[mixmax]

Good tips and nice share. Thanks.

 

[l0ck]

Thank you

 

[Royal King]

I just saw this thing sometime back. Thanks anyways

 

[GoPantheoN]

Welcome

 

[warezmonster]

This hint is known in general.

But good information for beginners...

 

[Mr.DoNut420]

Gr8 Trick Indeed

 

[alopezbr]

very nice tips, thanks !

 

[XForce!]

Cooool!

Simple But Great And Important Tip!